Meaning & Definition of Radiate in English

1. Send out rays or waves

• "The sun radiates heat"

2. Send out real or metaphoric rays

• "She radiates happiness"

3. Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center

• "Spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"

• "This plants radiate spines in all directions"

4. Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink

• "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna"

5. Cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays

• "The sun is radiating"

6. Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion

• "She was beaming with joy"

• "Her face radiated with happiness"

7. Issue or emerge in rays or waves

• "Heat radiated from the metal box"

8. Spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate

• "The plants on this island diversified"

1. Arranged like rays or radii

• Radiating from a common center

• "Radial symmetry"

• "A starlike or stellate arrangement of petals"

• "Many cities show a radial pattern of main highways"

2. Having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies